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Federal Agency for Culture and Cinematography
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Pilot animation studio
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Present
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We live in Russia.
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On the Russian state emblem you can see...
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...a golden two-headed eagle, powerful and majestic.
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St.George slaying the dragon with a silver lance...
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...is mounted on the eagle's chest.
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The Russian flag is a tricolour.
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White, blue and red.
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Moscow is the capital of Russia,
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...the biggest country in the world.
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It is so big and full of thick forests,
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...wide steppes, deep seas and high mountains.
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And the highest of them are called...
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...the Caucasus Mountains.
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And where the mountains go down to the warm...
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...Caspian sea there lies the Republic of Dagestan.
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More than forty different peoples live there.
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Avars, Lezgians and Dargins among them.
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Dargins make the best sabers...
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and daggers adorned with silver and gold.
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Lesgians shepherd the sheep in the high mountains,
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...make warm cloaks from fleece...
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and weave beautiful carpets.
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While Avars are famous for their skills in metal...
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...embossing and marvellous wood and stone engraving.
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All the peoples of Dagestan
celebrate the Spring Day.
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During this holiday all the
fires and torches are lit up...
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and the people wear scary and
funny masks of felted cloth.
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And in the evening they tell...
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...wonderful stories from ancient times.
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And every story is like a gem.
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- Hey, let me go, you filthy bird! Hey!
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...Ah!!! Hold me tight! ...Hold me! Ah-a-a!!!
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- Ah-a-a!!!
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Once upon a time in a small highland village...
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...there lived a man whose name was Shejdulla.
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And he was such a slug that his laziness...
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«Shejdulla the slug»
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...was beyond description.
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- Hush!
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...Shh! Hush! Come on!
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- Tsob-tsobe, tsob-tsobe, tsob-tsobe...
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- So...
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- Tsob-tsobe, tsob-tsobe...
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- So, Shejdulla! Are the sheep safe?
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- Look, they are safe. Almost.
- At least you've done something worthy, lazybones!
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- May be you could fix the basket?
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...You promised to do so 6 months ago...
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- The basket?
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...Nah, I don't feel like fixing anything...
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...Huh! ...This will do!
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- Here you go.
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- Really, have you fixed it?!
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- Oh-oh-oh, devil!
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...Grab it, grab it! Catch it!
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...Oh-oh-oh...
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...Oh-ah-oh!!!
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- How come you've fixed it,
haven't you? You lazybones!
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...Go feed the bulls! You useless man!!!
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- Oooh... Ah...
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...Go feed the bulls she said.
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- Oh, where is it? Ah? I'm tired already!
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...Ah that will do!
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- Be quiet! Don't disturb me!
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...Huh? Oh! What have I done?!
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...Keep an eye on the baby...
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...while I'm making the dough!
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- Keep quiet! Hey, don't you distract me.
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- Oh my! What have you done!
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...You're a disaster What shall I do?!
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...Go chop some wood for the furnace.
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- Chop... the wood...
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...Oh, I don't feel like chopping.
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...It will burn anyway.
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- Ah-a-a!
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- Oh, fire!!! We're on fire!
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...Why are you standing here, lazy fool,
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...run for water!
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Oh devil!!!
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...God gave me this husband as a punishment.
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...Oh help! Everything is on fire! Help, help!
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- Oh no!
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...Ah-ah everything is on fire,
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...everything is burning!
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- My grandma used to tell me that far away,
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...in the mountains high there lives a wise mage.
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...May be he can teach you...
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...how to live your life, lazy fool!
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- Oh it's cold...
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- Oh, I don't feel like...
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- Uh-uh...
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- Hello! I wish you Good health.
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- Thank you for your kind words.
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...My head is killing me.
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...Where are you heading, uh?
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- You see, my wife says I'm too lazy.
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- Ah! ...it fell off!
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- There's no food at home. ...At all!
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...So she sent me to ask the mage...
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...how to become rich?
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- Why are you lying on the ground then?
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- You see, the lakegot in my way.
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- So go make a float-boat.
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- Ah-a-a! I don't feel like doing this...
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- Look, good man.
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...I'll build this float-boat for you.
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...And you'll go to the mage...
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and ask him what I should do, fine?
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- Fine, I'll do that. Make the float-boat.
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- It has been three years that I'm suffering...
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...my arms ache.
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...my tail aches...
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...Everything aches! So much pain! ...Everything!
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...Ask the mage for a piece of advice for me...
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...how to get well again?!
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- Oh!!! ...Ah! A! A! ...Ah!
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...here you go!
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...Eeeuw!
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...My arms! ...My arms!!!
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......My arms!
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...Oh my poor arms!
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- Your arms I hope you get well!
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- Here you go! Don't forget...
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...what I asked you to do, uh?!
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...Hey, good man!
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- I'll try not to forget.
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- Let peace come into your house...
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...into your house! Oh!
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...Where are you heading, good man?
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- My wife says I'm too lazy...
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and our household falls apart.
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...May be the mage will tell me what to do.
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- Why don't you row then? Oh-oh!
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- Ah-a-a! I don't feel like rowing, you see!
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- I will push you float-boat forward,
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...if you promise me that you'll do...
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...what I'm asking for.
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- Ah... Fine! Push!
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- My belly feels so heavy.
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...I'm drowning all the time!
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...Ask the mage how I can get better.
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- Have strength in your limbs!
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...Go see the mage, hurry!
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- You too, fish, have strength in your limbs.
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- What limbs are you talking about?
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- Oh! Ah!
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- Anybody here?!
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- Uuh! Let prosperity be with you...
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...Good man, where are you heading?
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- Prosperity is what I'm lacking.
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...I'm on my way to the mage to ask for some advice.
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- Could you be so kind as to ask for...
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...a piece of advice for me too?
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...I can never grow more than one apple...
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...on my brances! Oh!
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- Ah, fine, I'll ask him.
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- Shouldn't you get going then?
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- Ah, I don't feel like going anywhere, I'm hungry.
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- I'll give you my... Oooh, just a second, oooh.
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...my one and only apple.
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...Here you go and head to the mage, you must hurry!
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- Hey! Don't forget to chew the apple.
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...If you're, of course not too lazy for that.
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- Welcome! Heh-heh-heh!
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Here comes Shejdulla to the great mage.
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- Finish chewing first and then ask for advice.
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- I don't feel like chewing! You see? Do you see?!
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- Ah! Oh! That is your problem. Shejdulla.
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- How do you know my name.
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- Let your head store a hundred
times more knowledge.
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...That's why I'm the mage — I know everything!
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...Don't you want to ask me something else?
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And Shejdulla told the mage about what the wolf,
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...the fish and the apple tree have asked him.
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- The fish has a diamond in her throat.
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...When she gets the stone out
of her she'll get better.
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...There is a huge jar full of silver
buried under the apple tree.
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...When it gets out of the ground,
the blossom will stop falling off...
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...and the apples will ripen on the branches.
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...And the wolf, to recover from his illness,
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...should eat the first lazy slug he encounters.
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- What about me?! How do I become rich?
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- Your request is fulfilled already.
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...And now go...
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- Ah-a-a-a! I'm flying!
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- Hey, and? What did he say?
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- Yes! You need to get a huge jar with silver dug...
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...out from the ground around your roots.
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...And after that the apples...
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...will ripen on your branches.
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- Then go ahead and dig this jar out!
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...It will work for your good too,
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...you'll become rich at once!
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- Oh no, I don't feel like digging.
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...The wise man told me that I'll become rich...
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...anyway I'll spare the effort. Ah-ah!
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- Ooo!
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- Ah-a-a!!!
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- So tell me human?!
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- When you get a huge diamond out from your throat...
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...then and only then I'll be healthy!
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- Show mercy, take the diamond out!
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......You'll save me and become rich yourself!
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- No way! I'll become rich anyway. Why bother?
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- I'm drowning!!!
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- Spare the effort! Ah-ah!!
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- Oh!... It's wet out here...
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- Hello, hello, good man!
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...Tell me what did he say?!
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And Shejdulla told the wolf about the fish...
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...and the apple tree.
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- But I Decided not to waste my time!
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...I'll be rich anyway!
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- And what did he tell about me?
What was my piece of advice?!
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- And you... You should eat the first lazy slug you...
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...see on your way!
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...That's how you'll get better! That's all. Bye!
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- I don't have to look for a lazy slug anywhere,
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...he came to me himself!
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...There's no one in the world lazier than this man!
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- Ah!
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- Devil!!! Ah!
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- That's it!
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And since then nobody ever saw Shejdulla again.
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While there are still a lot of lazy slugs around.
